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Valentina Azzarà’s Leiden Experience: “I work on the big picture”Recently, Valentina Azzarà joined the Faculty of Archaeology as a postdoc in the Archaeology of the Near East research group. She mostly focuses on th...
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How the ‘English disease’ turned out to be not so very English after allA vitamin D deficiency is often associated with smoggy English industrial cities during the Industrial Revolution, but research carried out on skeleto...
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Replica of unique prehistoric sword unveiled in OssThe Faculty of Archaeology has a long research tradition in the municipality of Oss. Since 1974, researchers and students have been carrying out archa...
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Archaeologists visit Ethiopia for material culture studies projectAnnelou van Gijn and Diederik Pomstra took part in the Shire Project in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, to contribute to an exciting mix of lithic and use-...
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Ancient populations pioneered the idea of recycling wasteThe circular economy is typically seen as the progressive alternative to our wasteful linear economy, where raw materials are used to make the product...
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Digging into stone age secretsArchaeologist Dr Gerrit Dusseldorp's research project was covered by a South African newspaper. Dusseldorp and his team investigate the evolution of h...
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Victor Klinkenberg’s Leiden Experience: “I like to bring experts and ideas together”Dr Victor Klinkenberg calls himself a generalist pur sang. As an expert on digital archaeology he has worked on nearly all the regions the Faculty of ...
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Sarah Schrader appointed to Young Academy LeidenThe recently formed Young Academy Leiden consists of a group of young scholars who are committed to increasing interdisciplinary research, promoting s...
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2018 Hall of FameOver the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...
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Archaeologist Sada Mire hosts radio and TV programmesSomali archaeology in Somaliland takes centre stage in a BBC World Service radio programme and a China Global Television Networks (CGTN) programme, bo...
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From the Colossal to the Microscopic: exhibition on archaeological sciences in Van SteenisScientific methods and techniques have been employed in archaeological research since the very birth of the discipline. It is impossible to imagine mo...
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Siberian 'unicorn' takes centre stage in radio interviewThe publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution about the so-called Siberian unicorns took centre stage in a Dutch radio interview.
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Faculty of Archaeology contributes to 'Heritage on the Move' Overview ExhibitionThe Faculty of Archaeology, in the persons of Marlena Antczak and Lennart Kruijer, had three pictures included in the exhibition 'Heritage on the Move...
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Siberian 'unicorns' extinct much later than believedGiant prehistoric 'unicorns' once wandered over the prairies of Central Asia. New research has shown that these so-called Siberian unicorns lived much...
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Aris Politopoulos’ Leiden Experience: “video games can provide new avenues for research”Seven years ago, Aris Politopoulos left Athens for a master’s programme at the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology. Now he has nearly finished his PhD disse...